[I love you and all, I don't plan to stop, but losing the option would be terrifying.]

[You could torch it off like Alice did, but yeah. And there's no guarantee you'd settle on me anyway, you can't conjure up illusions for it like you can with coin colors and daemons and it could just as easily be anyone else, we'd have to ask a precog.]

[Which we're not doing, because I don't want to no matter who I'd get.]

[I understand.]

He sighs.

[You okay?]

[Yeah. Well, no. Well, mostly.]

[...Can I do anything about that?]

[I can think of things, but they'd probably all make me late checking into the next hotel.]

[I eschew outright time travel, but time dilation isn't a big deal.]

[So we can go have a cuddle and I can come back and it'll only be a few seconds? Deal.]

[Sure.] Wish. [C'mere.]

Snuggle, snuggle.

Mmm, lemon drops. Bella replies with maple sugar.

Bella is the nummiest empress!

She is!

Ripper is so pleased with her numminess.

She is pleased with what he does when he is pleased.

Well, everyone is pleased, then, aren't they!

Universal pleasedness and all the time in the world!

Yes. They should've thought of this before, really. No interruptions!

Indeed! She might just leave the time dilation feature in place on this room. Indefinite recreational naps. Leisure activity.

Sex.